Citation

Nishimura R, Tajima N, Matsushima M, LaPorte RE. Diabetes Care 1998; 21(10): 1674-1679.

Affiliation

Department of Medicine (III), Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. rimei+@pitt.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, American Diabetes Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9773729

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the impact of age at onset on the prognosis of childhood IDDM in Japan. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: The study population consisted of 987 prepubertal-onset and 345 pubertal-onset IDDM cases who were registered by two nationwide surveys and who were diagnosed between 1965 and 1979. The living status was identified as of 1 January 1990 with the ascertainment rate of 96.5%. Prognosis was evaluated by cause- and age-specific mortality rates and life-table analyses; in addition, an attained-age-matched case-control study was analyzed by conditional logistic regression. RESULTS: The adjusted mortality rates per 100,000 person-years for the pubertal-onset cases were significantly higher than those of the prepubertal-onset cases (835 [95% CI 573-1,168] vs. 391 [283-526]). Life-table analyses revealed that the survival rate of the pubertal-onset cases was lower than that of the prepubertal-onset cases for each observation period. Life-table analyses after the age of 15 years indicated that the prognosis of pubertal cases was almost the same as that of the prepubertal cases despite having a shorter duration of diabetes. The attained-age-matched case-control study indicated that the pubertal onset was a potent determinant of death. CONCLUSIONS: The prognosis of pubertal-onset IDDM was considerably poorer than that of prepubertal-onset IDDM.

Language: en